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@matt @nobodyknows that's how #Pleroma does it. They don't store remote assets.

On one side big instances would suffer as being CDN for all smaller instances. The same way, a smaller instance with popular accounts would suffer.

It could also be if those servers were slow serving you or your users would have a degraded experience. That's one of the reasons, I think, Mastodon chose the architecture of storing everything locally.

Just guessing.